1. Field of Research
The purpose of the thesis is to explain why the state petroleum monopoly in Brazil was flexibilized in the mid-1990s. The federal monopoly was institutionally cemented in 1953 and the state-owned ...

This article is a short synopsis of parts of my monograph, Alvestad (2016), about the Uppsala manuscript, O. nova 546, of Muḥammed Hevāʾī Üskūfī Bosnevī´s literary work Maḳbūl-i ʿārif [Dear to the Wise] from 1631. Thus, ...

BACKGROUND: Studies indicate that the obese face a poorer labour market outcome compared to non-obese. Obese have an overall lower wage rate, they are more likely to be unemployed and when they are unemployed, they are ...

Background
Obesity is one of the most important risk factors for osteoarthritis (OA) in knee(s). However, the relationship between obesity and OA in hand(s) and hip(s) remains controversial and needs further ...

Executive summary
Background: South Asians are known to be prone to the metabolic syndrome and the adverse effects of this. There are many hypotheses and explanations for the high vulnerability to obesity, diabetes and ...

Objective: We investigated the association between obesity and biomarkers indicating cardiac or renal dysfunction or inflammation and their interaction with obesity and outcomes.
Methods: A total of 14 753 patients in the ...

Background
Despite the increasing prevalence of diabetes and other health consequences of obesity, little is known on the metabolic profile across categories of body mass index (BMI) among African populations. ...

Introduction Obesity-susceptibility loci have been related to adiposity traits in adults and may affect body fat estimates in adolescence. There are indications that different sets of obesity-susceptibility loci influence ...